Haloplegma Montagne, 1842
Holotype species: Haloplegma duperreyi Montagne
Original publication and holotype designation: Montagne, C. (1842). Troisième centurie de plantes cellulaires exotiques nouvelles. Décades V, VI, VII et VIII. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique, Seconde Série 18: 241-282, pl. 7.
Request PDFPrecise date of publication: Nov 1842
Description: Thallus erect or decumbent, with flattened felt-like spongy branched blades; structure with a layered network formed by parallel ecorticate filaments, the cells of which each bear lateral determinate branchlets that anastomose to form a net. Outer surface with short perpendicular or elongate and curved filaments bearing reproductive structures. Cells multinucleate. Spermatangia in subcylindrical heads. Carpogonial branches borne on short branches on cells of surface clusters. Carposporophytes globose, with several successively developing gonimolobes composed entirely of carposporangia, involucrate. Tetrasporangia terminal, tetrahedrally divided, occasionally forming octosporangia.
Information contributed by: Huisman (2018). The most recent alteration to this page was made on 2019-06-12 by M.D. Guiry.
Taxonomic status: This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.
Most recent taxonomic treatment adopted: Wynne, M.J. & Schneider, C.W. (2010). Addendum to the synoptic review of red algal genera. Botanica Marina 53: 291-299.
Comments: Widespread in warm and temperate seas.
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Descriptions of chrysophyte genera were subsequently published in J. Kristiansen & H.R. Preisig (eds.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Chrysophyte Genera. Bibliotheca Phycologica 110: 1-260.
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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 12 June 2019. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://www.algaebase.org; searched on 19 April 2024
